65 - French School,

French School, early 19th century- Still life of a lobster, a Chinese porcelain vase, oysters, lemons, bread, a knife and other objects on a wooden table draped with a green cloth; oil on canvas, bears signature 'JB Oudry' (to the edge of the table, lower left), 94 x 78.9 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Cologne, 1933. O. Hirschmann, Amsterdam, 1934. Madame Leboeuf, Epernay. New York art market, 1966; There acquired by Emile Wolf, New York; Thence by descent. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 June 2017, lot 16. Private Collection, UK. Literature: H. Opperman, 'Jean-Baptiste Oudry', Chicago 1972 , vol. I,p. 560, cat. no. P526, reproducedvol. II, p. 973, fig. 1 (as an early work by Oudry,circa 1710, based on a photograph). H. Gerson, 'Ausbreitung und Nachwirkung der Holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts', Amsterdam 1983, p. 220, reproduced fig. 37 (as Oudry). Note: The present work, once thought to be by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1855) based on a false signature, is by a 19th-century artist looking directly at the still life paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, particularly those of Willem Kalf (1619-1693).